After more than 20 years of ban: in the Russian Federation allowed the activity of the Taliban movement, - Roszmi

According to Russian correspondents, the meeting was in closed mode. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian news agency told that the basis for appeal to the court was introduced in the Code of Administrative Judiciary and the Federal Law on Combating Terrorism.

According to them, if the terrorist organization "ceased activities aimed at propaganda, justification and support for terrorism or committing crimes of terrorist orientation against the interests of Russia", the ban on its activities can be suspended. The Talibi gained power in Afghanistan since August 2021. Since then, the government of Islamic Emirate Afghanistan has not recognized any country in the world.

In 2003, Taliban was introduced to the list of terrorist organizations in Russia, but in recent years they have repeatedly visited the country and the Russian authorities have accepted their delegations in Moscow, BBC reports. In July 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Taliban allies in the fight against terrorism. He stated that since the Taliban movement controls power in Afghanistan, Russians can resist terrorists together with its representatives.

Before that, on May 27, 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice of Russia were recommended to exclude the Taliban from the list of prohibited organizations. The next day, the Russian dictator said that Moscow will build relations with Taliban representatives "given today's realities".

The fact that the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan announced the Kabulov's measure announced the exception of Talibana from the List of terrorists, the media was also written in October 2024. We will remind, on April 17, the Bloomberg news agency wrote that the Russian Federation expects the withdrawal of sanctions and the return of Western companies after the alleged end of the war in Ukraine.